NASA Releases Administratorís Video About Final Shuttle Launch

WASHINGTON -- With the successful launch of the final space shuttle mission, Atlantisí STS-135 mission to the International Space Station, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has issued a video statement about the program and the agencyís future.

Bolden salutes the Space Shuttle Program and its many accomplishments while also highlighting the human spaceflight missions yet to come on the space station and beyond. NASA is facilitating commercial access for cargo and crew to low Earth orbit and developing technologies and capabilities to reach destinations in deep space such as asteroids and Mars.